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Guest Host Chris Orwig Talks With Chris Burkard About What's Next On The Horizon

On today’s show, guest host Chris Orwig continues his conversations with mentors, colleagues and friends with the incomparable Chris Burkard. Burkard’s images are well known to his 3.6 million Instagram followers, but there’s much more to him than just social media.

Burkard’s humility, his humanity and his unwavering dedication to his family make him who he is as a photographer and entrepreneur. In the midst of the coronavirus shutdowns, as he saw his business come to a complete and sudden halt, Burkard has been looking to the future and what’s on the horizon.

See more about Chris Orwig here. See more about Chris Burkard here. You can join Chris Burkard's 3.6 Instagram followers here. 

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